The previous owners did a bad job caulking the tub. (took about 2 hours of scraping to get out the old dried caulk so I could do it right), they didn't tile under the new vanity (just laziness as they had spare tile), and they didn't attach the vanity to the wall at all to make it stable.
We found some nice tile at the Habitat Restore for about 70 cents a square foot (a quick google search showed it being about $3 normally).
I removed all the fixtures, giving Claire thorough explanations along the way. It was awesome making her scrape the old wax toilet ring off the bottom of the toilet. We then got to smashing. With regular hammers, flat head screwdrives, and some flat scrapers we managed to get all the old tiles up.
First we hammered the screwdrivers under the edge of the tile and big chunks. We also got good chunks up by just hitting the tiles hard, haha. Once we had the tiles up, we went at the mortar with the scrapers. That was the most annoying part. Lots of hammering and lots of dust. Eventually we got it all up and then cleaned up. Tiling wasn't too bad, but I had to do it all in one evening after work, which was pretty rough. It caused a few joints to be uneven and for me to get lazy with some cuts, but in the end it looks pretty good. I grouted the next evening, and then installed the fixtures the next day (as I had to go out of town for work right after that). I'm really happy we got it done, but hopefully the next tile job is less rushed.
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